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A massive lightning ‘megaflash’ set a world record — it stretched for a whopping 515 miles
A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, turned out to be a staggering 515 miles long. A new report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society documented the new lightning record, which beat the previous title holder, a 477-mile bolt from April 2020.
Image from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite of the thunderstorm complex that produced the megaflash lightning bolt on October 22, ...
The 515-mile bolt stretched from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., a roughly eight-hour distance by car, according to the ...
A 515-mile-long lightning strike that traveled from Texas to Missouri has been confirmed as the new world record.
In October 2017, a thunderstorm in the United States produced lightning that extended across several states. Now, researchers ...
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New World Record-Longest 'Megaflash' Lightning Confirmed. It Covered A Distance From East Texas To Near Kansas CityA megaflash is a lightning discharge of very long distance and/or duration that satellites can detect. A reanalysis of a ...
Did you see a flash of lightning? Start counting, because that can tell you how far away the thunderstorm is, and if it's ...
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